The Rebellion in the United States: Or, The War of 1861; Being a Complete History of Its Rise and Progress, Commencing with the Presidential Election ... Taken from Government Documents and Other Reliable Sources, Volume 1G.C. Rand & Avery, printers (v.1), 1862 - United States |
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... commands neither our respect nor confidence , that the South contemplates resistance , even to disunion ; wounded honor might tolerate the outrage , until , by an- other vote of the people , the nuisance could be abated ; but the ...
... commands neither our respect nor confidence , that the South contemplates resistance , even to disunion ; wounded honor might tolerate the outrage , until , by an- other vote of the people , the nuisance could be abated ; but the ...
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... command of Major Robert Anderson , ( whither he had been sent , on the 18th 22 THE REBELLION IN THE UNITED STATES . Exciting cabinet meeting at Washington in regard to Fort Moultrie The President's opposition, and resignation of ...
... command of Major Robert Anderson , ( whither he had been sent , on the 18th 22 THE REBELLION IN THE UNITED STATES . Exciting cabinet meeting at Washington in regard to Fort Moultrie The President's opposition, and resignation of ...
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... , it is said , was near the Capitol , with Capt . Barry's company of artillery and Major Harkin's command , acting as infantry . Offi- cers reported continually , passing to and fro , and 52 THE REBELLION IN THE UNITED STATES .
... , it is said , was near the Capitol , with Capt . Barry's company of artillery and Major Harkin's command , acting as infantry . Offi- cers reported continually , passing to and fro , and 52 THE REBELLION IN THE UNITED STATES .
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... command of the military department of Columbus , Ga . He says : “ Southerners have a high and sacred duty to perform , and know well how to perform that duty . He who dal- lies is a dastard ; he who doubts is damned ; ' and he who cries ...
... command of the military department of Columbus , Ga . He says : “ Southerners have a high and sacred duty to perform , and know well how to perform that duty . He who dal- lies is a dastard ; he who doubts is damned ; ' and he who cries ...
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... command of the Rev. James C. Wilson . The parade was witnessed by a large assemblage , including a host of ladies . At eleven a . M. , the " minute - men " formed on the Plaza , around the lib- erty - pole , from which the Lone Star ...
... command of the Rev. James C. Wilson . The parade was witnessed by a large assemblage , including a host of ladies . At eleven a . M. , the " minute - men " formed on the Plaza , around the lib- erty - pole , from which the Lone Star ...
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Page 61 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Page 55 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 62 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect and defend" it. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 54 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 60 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 60 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence, and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 60 - They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends?
Page 62 - Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Page 59 - One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
Page 57 - Again, if the United States be not a Government proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it. One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak — but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?